On Friday 17 December 2004 14:52, Satish Balay wrote: > > Sorry to be dense but can I add this to Synaptic? I did add it as a repo > > (all one line) Synaptic doesn't complain but I don't see the packages > > Nope.. > > You chould have checked the above url - to see if the 'apt' metadata > was there or not. Yep, you've got a point I was trying the old "hit it hard enough and it should fit" theory :-( > So far Fedora hasn't provoied 'apt' metadata for any of the > repositories. Only some mirror sites have been generating this for > your use. I'm not sure I follow what your saying? are you talking specifically about pre-extras? I get everything else via dag, freshrpms, dries & newrpms I have had a look at the rpms I could just download them and install but I like Synaptic and want to keep everything under one roof. -- Regards Peter Cannon